Thursday, March 21, 2013

The boy born with no ankles or knees who can now own a pair of shoes for the first time - thanks to his amazing new legs


A little boy born without shinbones, knees or ankles is finally able to own his first pair of shoes after being fitted with special prosthetic legs with feet.

Three-year-old Ted Johnson's new legs have feet - unlike his last few pairs. This week, he tried out his new blue fibreglass prosthetic legs for the first time on the basketball court at the Royal Children's Hospital, in Melbourne, Australia.

Scans while his mother Abbie was pregnant failed to reveal that Ted was suffering from the rare condition tibial hemimelia. This is where there the tibia - the shinbone - is either partially or totally missing at birth. The foot may also be deformed or may have additional toes.


Ted's condition meant his parents, Abbie and Peter, were forced to take the agonising decision to have his legs amputated when he was a year old.The youngster has previously been fitted with two other types of prosthetics, but this is the first set with actual feet. And as soon as the new blue fibreglass legs were strapped on with Velcro, he was on the move. His mother said: 'He's incredible - nothing stops him.



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